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Dick Morris: Sometimes a strategist just has to sit back and gasp
Jewish World Review ^ | 9-3-04 | Dick Morris

Posted on 09/03/2004 5:08:34 AM PDT by SJackson

UNTIL President Bush began his speech on the final night of the Republican National Convention, the goal of the United States' anti-terror policy was perceived by a largely supportive public as a bid to assure safety. With a rhetorical flourish worthy of the great speeches of all time, George W. Bush has transformed the war into a battle for liberty.

In a speech that was at once eloquent and substantive, sensitive and dynamic, profound and familiar, Bush has risen to a level few presidents have ever reached.

Sometimes a strategist just has to sit back and gasp. Occasionally, a seasoned political observer needs to realize that he has seen something extraordinary. Tonight, Bush made me feel like that.

The speech satisfied every single political need. He contrasted with Kerry without appearing negative. He demonstrated emotion without pandering. He rose to a level of substantive specificity without becoming wonkish.

The Bush speech was akin to a State of the Union speech, surveying the landscape of American issues and articulating a proactive agenda for the next four years. But, like his stirring address to Congress in the aftermath of 9/11, he issued a ringing declaration for freedom, injecting the historic concept of freedom into the center stage in the 2004 election.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 229; acceptancespeech; dickmorris; gwb2004; rncconvention
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To: alwaysconservative
I can't fit Dick Morris's name in the tagline. If asked, I will give credit. I didn't know there was a "tagline" police force? Do you guys sit around and eat donuts like my cops do?
61 posted on 09/03/2004 5:59:03 AM PDT by Shortwave (Supporting Bush was a duty one owed to the fallen. Now, it is an honor.)
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To: SJackson
Morris thought it was great.

Yikes!
62 posted on 09/03/2004 6:00:25 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: RGSpincich
re: Now I'm worried.

Me, too. I always enjoy reading what the Vampire writes...it's always full of intrigue and melodrama. But he's wrong most of the time.

63 posted on 09/03/2004 6:01:12 AM PDT by Mamzelle (Sign the 180, and release TeRAYza's tax returns while you're at it)
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To: ImpBill
Last night President Bush not only reassured me he is the right man, for the right job, at the right time; he inspired me that he is indeed.

Fortunately, for our side, Kerry has decided to push the idea that since he put on the uniform and spent time in Vietnam, that he's more qualified for the Presidency than the two men who 'decided not to serve'. HELLO? I don't know what he thinks flying F-102s is; chopped liver, maybe? As far as Dick Cheney is concerned, I think being married and having kids at the time, he wasn't considered suitable as he wasn't already in the military. Doesn't make him a slacker, that's just the way it was for many men at the time.

By concentrating on Vietnam, Kerry is avoiding his Senate service, and leaves that road open for the President and Vice-President to remind folks of Kerry's record in the Senate. It is my opinion that Kerry has jumped the shark with his continuing to talk about his Vietnam service, and even the Swifties have moved on from that! Fine by me, it will just make the President's victory margin that much larger! ;o)

64 posted on 09/03/2004 6:01:50 AM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)
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To: SJackson
Okay Dick, you've done good. Now don't spoil it.

Just sit down and shut up till the election.

65 posted on 09/03/2004 6:02:26 AM PDT by OldFriend (WAR IS THE REMEDY OUR ENEMIES HAVE CHOSEN)
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To: PhatHead

Yeah, I wondered if Peggy had a hand in that speech. It was Dubya's style, but some of the phrases that just sounded so 'Peggy'. When she wrote the column at WSJ that said she was going to work with the Republicans, she said that she'd be working for folks most people hadn't heard of, but I'm not so sure.


66 posted on 09/03/2004 6:04:42 AM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)
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To: ImpBill
If there were any doubts about the 'other' guys. The midnight madness on dislay ought to have dispelled any doubts.

That they chose to follow so immediately the RNC convention gave anyone watching the chance to contrast and compare.

The other team is not even fit for the office of tax collector.

67 posted on 09/03/2004 6:05:01 AM PDT by OldFriend (WAR IS THE REMEDY OUR ENEMIES HAVE CHOSEN)
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To: Lurking in Kansas
"I voted for Gore in 2000, as a true child of the Clinton era. But I decided to vote for Bush on Sept. 12, 2001 when I saw how he handled the threat we face. I used to back Bush because he offered safety; now I support him because he summons us all to an ideal. Before he spoke, supporting Bush was a duty one owed to the fallen. Now, it is an honor."

Wonderful line. Good leaders inspire goodness in people. Morris has in recent years redeemed himself IMHO and the fact he lets goodness effect him, then uses the power of his pen and prose to let people know, speaks well of Mr. Morris. I don't agree with some who call him a "wh*re"

68 posted on 09/03/2004 6:06:12 AM PDT by paulsy
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To: michaelt
And was she the one that came up with "the soft bigotry of low expectations?" It was good to hear that one pulled out again.

Nope, I believe that one was Mark Helprin's work; I think that's the guy's name. I believe he was also one who wrote the President's speech after 9/11 in the National Cathedral.

69 posted on 09/03/2004 6:08:17 AM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)
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To: Max Combined
The quote "soft bigotry of low expectations" is from the late New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

That is a wonderful phrase that deserved the prime time lime light in enjoyed in the President's wonderful speech.

70 posted on 09/03/2004 6:09:13 AM PDT by WashingtonSource (Freedom is not free)
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To: veronica

I turned to the Confused News Network after the speech just to hear what the most Evil and Dense thought of it. Maureen Dowd was confessing miserably that she believed the convention was almost perfect. Her sadness in admitting that was palpable. Hehehe.


71 posted on 09/03/2004 6:10:11 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (My Father was 10x the hero John Fraud Kerry is.)
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To: LS

MSNBC was even more positive and Maureen Dowd on CNN was declaring the whole convention almost perfect.


72 posted on 09/03/2004 6:12:09 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (My Father was 10x the hero John Fraud Kerry is.)
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To: George W. Bush
There are a lot of good and bad things about Dick Morris, but you can't deny that he has a good ear for politics.

His most recent column pointed out the advantage Bush has in the his supporters tend to all be on one side of an issue, whereas Kerry has supporters on either side of a given issue.

And that means that no matter what Kerry says on any given issue, it's going to tick off a good portion of his supporters.

73 posted on 09/03/2004 6:16:16 AM PDT by George Smiley (The only 180 that Kerry hasn't done is the one that would release ALL his military records.)
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To: LS
Morris tends to think that women control elections.

They do, real men are already voting for Bush.

74 posted on 09/03/2004 6:21:34 AM PDT by CMAC51
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To: ImpBill
I'm in the same boat as ImpBill. I think the Bush domestic agenda is a mess, but Lurch would be an absolute disaster. Bush is a guy you would trust to be in your foxhole, and we're all in a big foxhole right now.
75 posted on 09/03/2004 6:25:51 AM PDT by Malesherbes
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To: SJackson

"Uh, Dick. It's time to put the stake through Kerry's heart. Thanks - Hillary and Bill"


76 posted on 09/03/2004 6:29:29 AM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
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To: 2banana
"Before he spoke, supporting Bush was a duty one owed to the fallen. Now, it is an honor."

Of course, some of us knew this all along.

77 posted on 09/03/2004 6:30:12 AM PDT by Freemyland
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To: SJackson
I will agree with Morris the speech was very bold, almost radical. Very Reaganesque in its clearly stated vision and the resultant foreign policy. Dubya definitely laid down the gauntlet.

The line Dubya has drawn in the sand leaves about half of the Democratic party standing on the wrong side. They are total cynics about the concept of freedom, they see capitalism as a pathology, and they see imperialism everywhere...they are not in for a fun ride.

I saw Dubya's speech as a rallying call to centrist Reagan-style Dems to join him under the mantle of Reagan and move forward, to join him on the American/pro-freedom side of the line. Those who recoil instinctively or choose to remain on the wrong side should prepare to be isolated politically and left behind in history. The Dem standards of multiculturalism, socialism, human rights, and pacifism are largely irrelevant or shown to be empty in the current climate.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall when the Chicoms meet today.

78 posted on 09/03/2004 6:32:53 AM PDT by Monti Cello
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To: SJackson
Good one!

If Hillary runs, he's going to be our best friend .

sw

79 posted on 09/03/2004 6:36:11 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: Right_in_Virginia

[...because I definitely caught a whiff of Noonan in the tail end

Karen Hughes.]
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You mean the Karen Hughes who (I've read) wrote the twins' script? :o(


80 posted on 09/03/2004 6:48:39 AM PDT by GaretGarrett
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